Archive for March, 2014

Screaming fans, nervous moms and dads, and determined teenage athletes.
No, it wasn't high school football, the marquee sport of Texas, but it came close Sunday afternoon when the Southeast Texas High School Fishing Association (STHSFA) held its fourth tournament of the current season, with one more to go.

Screaming fans, nervous moms and dads, and determined teenage athletes.
No, it wasn't high school football, the marquee sport of Texas, but it came close Sunday afternoon when the Southeast Texas High School Fishing Association (STHSFA) held its fourth tournament of the current season, with one more to go.

The Walmart FLW Tour event at Sam Rayburn Reservoir presented by Chevy was plagued by up-and-down weather swings that left plenty of bass a bit confused about whether or not to head for the banks to spawn.
Some pros, such as Mark Rose and Jason Meninger, parked on prespawn stopping points that they hoped would bring transitioning fish to them. Others spent most of their time running and gunning grass and wood cover away from the bank with moving lures. A third group concentrated on the bank with thorough tactics aimed at tempting bedding bass that weren't visible in Rayburn's dingy water.
In the end, it was Chevy pro Bryan Thrift's protected backwater area, fished with extremely slow tactics, that held out for the win.

The Walmart FLW Tour event at Sam Rayburn Reservoir presented by Chevy was plagued by up-and-down weather swings that left plenty of bass a bit confused about whether or not to head for the banks to spawn.
Some pros, such as Mark Rose and Jason Meninger, parked on prespawn stopping points that they hoped would bring transitioning fish to them. Others spent most of their time running and gunning grass and wood cover away from the bank with moving lures. A third group concentrated on the bank with thorough tactics aimed at tempting bedding bass that weren't visible in Rayburn's dingy water.
In the end, it was Chevy pro Bryan Thrift's protected backwater area, fished with extremely slow tactics, that held out for the win.

If you were to script the perfect scenario for a Bryan Thrift victory, those would be the key pieces. But today at the Sam Rayburn Walmart FLW Tour event presented by Chevy, Bryan Thrift proved that he can not only break his own stereotype, but he can win when he does it.

LUFKIN, Texas - If you are 24 years old and recently graduated from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte there are endless options for what you could be doing. But for Eric Self, you would be fishing as a co-angler in the Walmart FLW Tour on Sam Rayburn taking home a cool $20,000 for capturing the top prize - not a bad graduation present.

Falling weights and high pressure - both the atmospheric kind and the psychological kind - told the story of day three of the Walmart FLW Tour event at Sam Rayburn Reservoir presented by Chevy. In the wake of a severe Friday-night thunderstorm that knocked out power and uprooted dozens of east Texas pines, pros took to "Old Man Sam" amid a high-pressure system and high, bluebird skies.
Walmart pro Mark Rose maintains his lead going into the fourth and final day, but for the second consecutive day, he failed to match his previous day's weight.